Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Hatching The Fire Dragon Egg
After making sure that the Fire Dragon Egg is safely secured on the True Dragon Nourishing Tree, Diluc then proceeds to open the Dragon Herding System once again as he navigates its shop, ending at the habitat section and unhesitatingly purchasing the Fire Floating Island.

After clicking on the image of the new floating island on the shop, a usual scene that no one among the three will never get used to starts revealing itself once again, a massive tear in space appearing all of a sudden as it shatters the image of the skies itself, from behind the veil of darkness obscuring what is beyond this spatial tear appearing a new floating island at the same size as the two floating islands where Yggdrasil and Argenta resides respectively, this one completely different from each of their own resting place.

With the size being the only thing similar to the habitat of the two goddess-like dragonesses, this Fire Floating Island floats on the same level as them, the shape of the mountain range situated on this massive island something that inspires awe to anyone that sees it with just its size alone, not to mention the fact that all of the peaks of this mountain range is glowing in a fiery hot red, the magma consistently flowing out of the crater on top of those peaks something that made this habitat all the more visually pleasing, especially when one observes it at night.

This magma on top of those peaks made it appear more mystical as well, the scorching heat that no normal creature can bear more than enough to bend light itself, making the area around it appear particularly distorted to anyone’s sight.

While it might appear to be a particularly dangerous and life-threatening habitat though, the group of three, two draconic beauties and one young man doesn’t seem to be all that affected despite being in close proximity with the newly arrived floating island, all three of them feeling that the spatial rift it appears from is something far more dangerous than this burning hot, hellish habitat instead.

After touring around this new addition to the Draconic Realm, all three of them then proceeds to carefully watch and wait until the Fire Dragon Egg hatches, the three of them doing nothing but observing the egg while they converse with each other to pass some time.

“The farm can only sustain so much, you all are consuming quite the Magic Fruit everyday now I think I need to increase the number of farms from now on” Diluc mentioned as he scrolls through the shop of the system once again, seeing something that piques his interest in the [Farms] section of the shop, a new addition to the [Magic Fruit Farm] once displayed there all alone.

[Congratulations for leveling a dragon up to the Peak of the First Realm (First Realm pertains to either the Red Core or Skin Refining or even both)]

Taking a look at the thing he wants to purchase, he also opens the information about the new farm he saw in the shop, wanting to compare which one among the two of them is better in terms of practicality to his current situation.

[Magic Fruit Farm (1,000 Realm Gold)]

[Description: Finish constructing in a minute and ready for harvest within four minutes, yielding 4~6 fruits per harvest. Only required to water once a day. Providing a young dragon with this as its meals will continuously nourish its body to the highest degree until the adolescent stage. Provides high level of filling and satisfaction to young dragons with just a single fruit.]

After reading the farm that gets the two draconic beauties to their adolescent stage, the young man then reads the information about the new farm, his eyes widening in surprise not only because of its price, but also because of the effects brought about by this new product.

[Dragon Heart Fruit Farm (5,000 Realm Gold)]

[Description: Finish constructing within fifteen minutes and ready for harvest every twenty minutes, yielding 2~4 Dragon Heart Fruits per harvest. Requires watering twice a day. Feeding this to an adolescent stage dragon every day will allow subtle improvement to their bloodline constantly, along with an increased rate of growth, regeneration and healing, in addition to it being a satisfying delicacy enough to fill an adolescent dragon for the day with just a single fruit.]

[Note: Be careful when feeding to younger dragons as it might cause them to experience indigestion due to the potency of the fruit]

Seeing the thing in front of him, the young man couldn’t help but think that this is far more efficient than the Magic Fruit Farm, the only thing preventing him from immediately purchasing it being the fact that he no longer has any Realm Gold to do so, once again causing him to wallow in pity for his poor self, deciding that he will do something about it once he reached the capital of the kingdom.

“Hmm~~ that is some good stuff” despite not having the knowledge about Dragon Heart Fruit from her inherited memories, Yggdrasil still deduced that this is something really good just because of the information presented to them, and that is even comparing to all the stuffs she knows because of her inherited memories.

Having nothing else to express but agreement, the taciturn platinum-haired beauty couldn’t help but nod at the mature beauty’s words, only pausing in regret as she saw the numbers on the upper left corner of her liege, her lover’s floating gray screen.

“Not enough money…” she said with her gentle, near flat emotionless voice as she points out at the eye-straining zero displayed, causing the young man to laugh helplessly as he thought that he really needs to do something about it sooner or later.

“It’s a good thing that we have the Magic Fruit Farm already, Argenta, else we even need to find some things outside that can barely satisfy us…” the alluring, neon green-haired beauty consoled as she looks at the purple fruits hanging on the vines of the only food source they have ever since they are born, which is not really that long of a time for a human not to mention a dragon, her eyes also revealing a hint of desire to taste this new fruit that the system has shown.

“Maybe I should bait some more assassins to earn some money for the Dragon Heart Fruit Farm…” Diluc mutters to himself as he saw the looks on these two beauties’ eyes, his heart wanting nothing more than to buy this new farm as he also wants to try its effect on him, his words causing the two beauties to look at him in worry as if what he just said bothers them.

“My liege… no need to forfeit your safety for our wants…” the wood dragoness said with a hint of concern in her tone as she knows just how reckless this lover of hers can be, the chances of him really doing what he just said being something that is more than just a non-zero probability.

“Mn… liege can just buy it when you can afford it…” even the taciturn beauty expresses herself strongly with this, her eyes glowing as if she will stop this young man should he really go with his reckless plan, not that she can stop him given the gap of their strengths now but she will try to do so nonetheless.

Seeing the expression on these two beauties’ eyes, Diluc couldn’t help but smile gratefully, thanking whoever it is that grants him this fate for gracing him with these two understanding women, their words making him think that he should really try and go ahead with such plan.

“Don’t worry, I know what I can do, and I know when to run…” he said, comforting them, yet never promising to really avoid doing his plan, this subtle wording causing him to get past through the head of these ladies, who are now nodding at his words with a satisfied expression on their gorgeous faces.

“Now we only need to wait for the young one to emerge out of her shell~~” after this small talk with her beloved liege, the alluring neon green haired beauty, Yggdrasil, said as she returns her focus to the scaled, flaming hot dragon egg currently in the middle of its incubation, the pulses it is giving off every second as its flaming parts glows causing each one of them to know that this one is going to be a really powerful dragon as well, making them wonder just how their liege nourishes high caliber draconic talents every time.

Meanwhile, Argenta is also looking at the egg eagerly, now looking forward to its emergence as her senior sister promises to let her experience taking care of the young one, something that said senior sister did with her, hence why she also wants to experience it as well.

While the two draconic beauties currently in their human form are waiting for the emergence of the new addition to their family, their liege, Diluc, is currently looking at this Fire Dragon Egg with a hint of nervousness in his eyes, still not getting used to the feeling of constantly thinking about what if something goes wrong despite already having experienced this moment for the third time now.